An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of Passing for Thin , Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim. He strides past her without a glimmer of recognition because she barely resembles the woman he is expecting to see. Jim had last seen her when she was 188... more...

Frances Kuffel wasn?t a Victoria?s Secret model, but she wasn?t so bad. Why couldn?t she find her Mr. Right? As Shakespeare said, the course of true love never did run smooth, but for Kuffel, it seemed like one pothole after another? In this sharp and irreverent memoir, Frances Kuffel recalls her quest to replace her on-again, off-again lover with... more...

"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" ( Publishers Weekly ), a memoir for every woman who has ever tried to lose weight. Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. Unfortunately, she gained over half those pounds back. But she also gained four new friends during this period, whom she met online. Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi,... more...